Swedish death metal
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Swedish death metal is a subgenre of death metal music developed in Sweden. Many Swedish death metal bands are associated with the melodic death metal movement, thus giving Swedish death metal a different sound from other variations of death metal. Unlike American death metal groups, the first Swedish bands were rooted in punk rock.[1] While Norway is more notorious for its quantity of black metal, Gothenburg in Sweden has a very large melodic death metal scene; in fact, melodic death metal is sometimes referred to as "Gothenburg metal".
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The Swedish death metal scene's earliest originators were in the D-beat hardcore punk scene.[2] Bathory, who would subsequently become a primary influence for the black metal scene, were a pivotal group in Swedish extreme metal.[3]
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In the early 1990s a death metal scene emerged in Gothenburg and Stockholm. The first wave of "Swedish death metal" consisted of the bands Carnage and Nihilist, who fragmented later into Entombed, Dismember and Unleashed.[4] These bands used the trademark Tomas Skogsberg/Sunlight Studios "buzzsaw" guitar tone, which was created by a combination of heavily detuned electric guitars and a 60 watt Peavey amp exclusively miked from behind the speaker cabinet, thus prioritizing the low frequencies in the recording process; also maxing out the Boss HM-2 Heavy Metal pedal. Later, the Gothenburg sound, propelled by both the Boss HM-2 Heavy Metal and the Boss MT-2 Metal Zone pedal, was pioneered by bands such as At the Gates.
Other groups to have emerged from the Swedish death metal scene include Hypocrisy, In Flames, Dark Tranquility, Tiamat, Nightrage, Arch Enemy, Soilwork, Amon Amarth, Edge of Sanity, Opeth, and The Haunted.[5]
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[edit] Bibliography
- Olivier "Zoltar" Badin, "In the Embrace of Evil: Swedish Death Metal New Blood", Terrorizer #182, April 2009, p. 32-34.
- Daniel Ekeroth, Swedish Death Metal. Brooklyn: Bazillion Points Books, 2008.
- James Hoare, "Left Hand Pathfinders". Terrorizer #182, April 2009, p. 28-29.
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